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Investigation of spontaneous cases of idiopathic retinal degeneration in blind chickens in Croatia in 2006 and 2007

The main purpose of this study was to find the cause of spontaneous cases of blindness in farm-reared chcikens and in chicken flocks of the same hybrid line held in small family farms in Croatia during the last two years. In order to elucidate the main cause of the blindness, ophtalomological, pathomorphological and microbiological investigations were performed in all the cases. As the ophtalmological and histopathological examinations revealed in all the cases the retinal degeneration very much alike to the pigmentous retinitis, the immunohistochemistry and transmissive electron microscopy investigations of the eyes were also performed.

blindness; chicken; retinal degeneration; pigmentous retinitis

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